Publications and Patents

Curcio, J.A., "Autonomous Ocean Vehicles, Subsystem and Control", Springer Handbook of Ocean Engineering, Springer Dorbrecht Heidelberg London New York, 2016. 517-526.

Curcio, J., Schneider, T., Benjamin, M., Patrikalakis, A., “Autonomous Surface Craft Provide Flexibility to Remote Adaptive Oceanographic Sampling and Modeling,” MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, Quebec, Canada, Sept. 2008.

Shafer, A.J., Benjamin, M.R., Leonard, J.J., Curcio, J.A., Patrikalakis, A., “Autonomous Cooperation of Heterogeneous Platforms for Sea-Based Search Tasks”, in Proceedings of MTS/IEEE Oceans 2008, Quebec City, Canada, September 2008.

Don Eickstedt, Michael Benjamin, Ding Wang, Henrik Schmidt, Joseph Curcio, “Behavior Based Adaptive Control for Autonomous Oceanographic Sampling” to appear, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Rome, Italy, April 2007.

Willcox, S., Goldberg, D., Vaganay, J., Curcio, J., “Multi-Vehicle Cooperative Navigation and Autonomy with the Bluefin CADRE System”, in Proceedings of IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 20-22 Sept, 2006.

Curcio, J., McGillivary, P., Fall, K., Maffei, A., Schwehr, K., Twiggs, B., Kitts, C., Ballou, P., “Self-Positioning Smart Buoys, The “Un-Buoy” Solution: Logistic Considerations using Autonomous Surface Craft Technology and Improved Communications Infrastructure,” in Proceedings of IEEE Oceans 2006, pages 1-5 ,September 2006.

Benjamin, M., Curcio, J., Leonard, J., Newman, P., “Navigation of Unmanned Marine Vehicles in Accordance with the Rules of the Road,” International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Orlando, FL, pages 3581-3587, May 2006.

Benjamin, M., Curcio, J., Leonard, J., Newman, P., “Protocol-Based COLREGS Collision Avoidance Navigation Between Unmanned Marine Surface Craft,” Journal of Field Robotics, Vol 23, No. 5, May 2006.

Curcio, J., Leonard, J., Patrikalakis, A., “SCOUT – A Low Cost Autonomous Surface Craft for Research in Cooperative Autonomy”, in Proceedings of MTS/IEEE Oceans 2005, pages 725-729 vol. 1, September 2005.

Curcio, J., Leonard, J., Vaganay, J., Patrikalakis, A., Bahr, A., Battle, D., Schmidt, H., Grund, M., “Experiments in Moving Baseline Navigation using Autonomous Surface Craft,” in Proceedings of MTS/IEEE Oceans 2005, pages 730-735 vol.1, September 2005.

Curtin, T., Crimmins, D., Curcio, J., Benjamin, M., Roper, C., “Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: Trends and Transformations,” The Marine Technology Society Journal, vol. 39, no. 3, pages 65-75, Fall 2005.

Benjamin, M.R., Curcio, J.A., “COLREGS-Based Navigation in Unmanned Marine Vehicles,” AUV 2004 IEEE/OES, pages 32-39, June 2004.

Vaganay, J., Leonard, J., Curcio, J., Willcox, S., “Experimental Validation of Moving Long-Baseline Concept”, AUV 2004 IEEE/OES, pages 59-65, June 2004.

Curcio, J.A., Bellingham, J.G., Hover, F.S., “CETUS: Design of a production AUV”, Sea Technology, Vol. 39, No. 12, December, 1998.

United States Patents & Applications

Several patents are listed here. Additional patents have issued and/or are still under review.

  • This multipurpose compostable absorption mat is intended to address the growing problem with food waste by providing a convenient method for directing food scraps into a compost facility.

  • The HHMI (Haptic Human Machine Interface) is based on modern technology that employs embedded sensors and signal generators within wearable garments. Practical applications of this technology include stroke rehabilitation, tremor mitigation and muscle memory training.

  • A novel drag reduction technology is described within this patent that has been put into practice aboard the JMS high speed SWATH vessel, Ghost. This simple Venturi based system uses the natural density difference between water and air to deliver micro-bubbles to submerged vessel elements, thereby significantly reducing the effects of viscous drag and producing higher vessel speeds at reduced engine HP.

  • A novel drag reduction technology is described within this patent that has been put into practice aboard the JMS high speed SWATH vessel, Ghost. This simple Venturi based system uses the natural density difference between water and air to deliver micro-bubbles to submerged vessel elements, thereby significantly reducing the effects of viscous drag and producing higher vessel speeds at reduced engine HP.

  • This patent addresses additional enhancements to the JMS SWATH vessel.

  • This patent addresses additional enhancements to the JMS SWATH vessel.

  • This patent defines a method for tracking a person (or object) that is floating on the sea surface. A key element of the claims in this patent relates to an algorithmic method for conserving battery life for the in-water component. This is achieved by timing all outbound radio transmissions from the MOB device to coincide with wave peaks, where there exists a higher probability of transmission receipt.

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